Improving Student Presentations (S. Allen)

Ken Rodoff
Springfield Township School District

kenrodoff.wikispaces.com


Used shoulder partner to get audience engaged.

• Hollywood Name - middle name, street you grew up on
• Quality of good presentation ... slides, delivery
  • humor, eye contact, slides less text, animation, less text, big text

Kids come equipped with stories. How can we give them tools to express themselves?
Templates are beautiful but confining.

Banned templates, banned bullets, banned layouts, banned clipart, banned word art - only choice is plain white template.

Message & design

• What is it that you want the audience to remember? What is the take away?
• Very hard question for students the first time they are asked!
• Use inspiration to plan the process - template on his website
• Need a hook for the audience
• Teach how to find copyright friendly images that have an emotional connection to audience or content
• Slides should not give away topic!
• TIME! Rehearse and practice - even better
• PowerPoint interventions!!!
• What images and text will enforce your message?

Resources to explore

• Websites
  • Imagechef
  • Flickr creative commons portal flickr.com/creativecommons
    • four portals to select from via license - attribution license - Ken's first choice
    • search with adjectives, descriptively
  • Flickrstorm
    • search by term - pulls quality images that are not inappropriate - click on advanced - can search by license
    • teacher can create tray (batch of images) - generates url of images that teacher has approved